Might 12 programme at The Machine Store contains vocal performances for Fiddler on the Roof, Can You Really feel the Love Tonight and The place Is Love?
The Sault Symphony Orchestra will current On Broadway as its remaining efficiency of the 2023-24 live performance season starting at 2 p.m. Sunday, Might 12 at The Machine Store.
The orchestra sometimes performs one gentle programme every live performance season.
“Broadway’s lighter however it’s not light-weight. There’s loads of actually nice stuff on Broadway. That’s why we selected it and our library has a reasonably good assortment of Broadway music so we’ve gone with that,” mentioned Stephen Mallinger, Sault Symphony Orchestra’s inventive director and conductor, in an interview with SooToday.
“They’re all actually robust,” Mallinger mentioned of the songs on the present’s programme.
“Porgy and Bess is unimaginable music and it is a actually nice association, in order that stands out for me. Fiddler on the Roof goes to be very highly effective. We’ve obtained Aaron Fisher who sang the lead function with the Musical Comedy Guild’s manufacturing of it final fall and my spouse Anya performs the well-known violin solo firstly. And, I just like the outdated chestnuts from Rodgers and Hammerstein.”
The present features a quick sampling of Swedish supergroup ABBA’s materials, together with Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia and I Have A Dream.
“One which I like loads is Can You Really feel the Love Tonight. I wrote that association and my pal Michael Connell performs the piano and he’s going to sing it, and he sounds nice. He sings it very well. We’ve additionally obtained a younger woman named Elise Hopper singing The place Is Love? from Oliver!” Mallinger added.
The orchestra’s 2023-24 live performance season has been nicely attended and nicely supported, Mallinger mentioned.
“This has been an ideal season. We had loads of success with The Nutcracker in December specifically. We had an ideal turnout for that. The orchestra has actually gelled as a result of we’ve had steady membership for a number of years now and we’re actually taking part in nicely collectively. The audiences have been actually passionate about the place we’re going as an orchestra.”
The Might 12 efficiency will embrace the orchestra’s traditional 40-member group however may even characteristic additional brass instrument musicians to provide the present a robust Broadway sound, Mallinger mentioned.
The orchestra is planning its 2024-25 live performance season that can embrace a efficiency entitled Time Travels together with Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 and Sinfonia Concertante by Mozart.
The On Broadway programme follows:
A Salute to the Huge Apple, organized by Calvin Custer
Porgy and Bess, George and Ira Gershwin, Dorothy and DuBose Heyward
Something You Can Do (I Can Do Higher), Irving Berlin
If I Liked You (Carousel), Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers
The King and I, Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers
Oliver!, Lionel Bart
Intermission
Fiddler on the Roof, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock
The Better of ABBA, organized by Ted Ricketts
The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber
Can You Really feel the Love Tonight, Tim Rice and Elton John
Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Depraved, Stephen Schwartz
Tickets for On Broadway can be found by the Sault Symphony Orchestra web site and the Sault Group Theatre Centre web site.
Tickets are $50 for adults and seniors, $30 for college students 13 to 18 years of age, free admission for these 12 and beneath.
Previous to On Broadway, the Sault Symphony Orchestra will host one other Mini Maestros occasion at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Might 11 at St. Andrew’s United Church, 712 Wellington St. E.
“The final Mini Maestros at St. Andrew’s in February was fully packed. It was standing room solely,” Mallinger mentioned.
The orchestra’s Mini Maestros occasions are for kids to take pleasure in and be launched to orchestral music in a extra casual atmosphere. Mini Maestros performances have had attendees as younger as 4 weeks outdated as much as 15 years of age.
Admission to Mini Maestros is free.
